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Authors
Tsuneki-Tokunaga, Akeno
Kanai, Kyosuke https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7984-207X
Itagaki, Asao
Tsuchie, Hideaki
Okada, Takayoshi
Kasagi, Masaaki
Tanaka, Kiyoshi
Aoki, Miho
Hinay, Alfredo Jr. A.
Kageyama, Seiji https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5220-6137
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K19228; 18K17353)
Tottori University
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Article History
Received: 23 October 2020
Accepted: 17 December 2020
First Online: 12 February 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: The present study was conducted with the approval and under the control of the Institutional Review Board of the Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan (no. 1981). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Sample collection was conducted after obtaining informed consent from patients in collaborating medical facilities consisting of a hospital and three clinics. Samples were then shipped to the laboratory without patient identification.
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